{"product_id":"chakaia-booker-the-observance-9783777438092","title":"Chakaia Booker: The Observance","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis publication accompanies the first comprehensive museum survey of the American artist.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eChakaia Booker: The Observance\u003c\/i\u003e explores the artist's signature form--monumental works made of rubber--while showcasing her artistic innovations across mediums. With new photography of the wide-ranging exhibition at ICA Miami, historic images, and newly commissioned scholarship, the publication illuminates key themes in the artist's practice. With special attention to Booker's totemic and anthropomorphic assemblages fabricated from cast-off tires, the volume highlights Booker's ongoing expression of ecological and technological concerns, examinations of racial and economic disparities, and her interest in the symbolism of the automobile in American culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alongside essays by Erin Jenoa Gilbert, Aruna d'Souza, and Stephanie Seidel as well as an interview with the artist by Alex Gartenfeld, this catalog includes some of Booker's most topical works, including \u003ci\u003eChu Ching\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), a cross on a wheelbarrow that resembles Jesus being dismounted from the cross. The artist's photographic series, \"Foundling Warrior Quest\" (2010) and \"Graveyard Series\" (1995), are featured to explore the importance of performance and mythology in her practice. Anchoring the book is \u003ci\u003eThe Observance\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), an immersive installation made of deconstructed rubber tires and tubes--Booker's first large-scale installation in this signature material, chosen by the artist for its associations with riots.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hirmer Verlag GmbH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783777438092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200","brand":"Alex Gartenfeld","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42466394112181,"sku":"9783777438092","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f017693c-1d47-4322-94bd-bedb3738eacb.jpg?v=1666404283","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/chakaia-booker-the-observance-9783777438092","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}